In the beginning of the semester I did not think I would have a positive experience with using technology so heavily in class. In fact, in high school we were discouraged from bringing laptops and tablets to class. I had very little prior knowledge of technology coming into college; I thought I would struggle to use an online Personal Knowledge Base. I was fond of note-taking with a pen and paper. To my surprise, I developed many skills through keeping a PKB on Evernote and learned techniques that I didn’t know existed.
As a “type A” person with many obsessive-compulsive antics when it comes to my education, I was satisfied with the organization options that Evernote provides. I had three different notebooks: in-class notes, out of class notes, and writing notes. I actually started using Evernote to organize notes for my research paper in my writing class, hence the ‘writing notes’ category. The in-class/out of class notes were separated to make recalling things I researched on my own easier; I didn’t have to look through all my class notes. I also used several different tags throughout the semester; I have one tag for each book that we read and one tag for each project we did. I also have a tag for ‘new information’ which are things that I didn’t know in the beginning of the semester that I thought was interesting, like what charter schools are.
My Evernote notes will certainly be used in the future. I have already made connections between things I learned in EDC and other classes, especially psychology. Since I want to be a school psychologist, learning about the education system is important. Evernote is so organized that finding specific information is an easy task. As skeptical as I was about using technology, I think it is a good way to store notes. This way the notes will never get lost like notebooks and paper could. It is easily accessible and future projects may require the information I learned over the semester that is kept in my PKB.
My favorite new skill I learned this semester was how to clip articles and web pages and save them on Evernote. This is much more convenient than Bookmarking a website to a computer since the Evernote Web Clipper allows you to clip only the information you want to be saved; you can highlight a specific portion or clip the whole website. When referring back to it on Evernote, the web link is saved too for easy access back to the original website. This is especially useful when doing research online.
I was pleasantly surprised with the PKB. It was an efficient way for me to keep track of my notes. This class had several projects that required research; saving the information researched on the internet was easy via the Evernote Web Clipper. I will continue to use Evernote in the future to store and organize my notes for other classes. Using tags will make it easy to connect ideas from all different classes which enhances my educational experience.
As a “type A” person with many obsessive-compulsive antics when it comes to my education, I was satisfied with the organization options that Evernote provides. I had three different notebooks: in-class notes, out of class notes, and writing notes. I actually started using Evernote to organize notes for my research paper in my writing class, hence the ‘writing notes’ category. The in-class/out of class notes were separated to make recalling things I researched on my own easier; I didn’t have to look through all my class notes. I also used several different tags throughout the semester; I have one tag for each book that we read and one tag for each project we did. I also have a tag for ‘new information’ which are things that I didn’t know in the beginning of the semester that I thought was interesting, like what charter schools are.
My Evernote notes will certainly be used in the future. I have already made connections between things I learned in EDC and other classes, especially psychology. Since I want to be a school psychologist, learning about the education system is important. Evernote is so organized that finding specific information is an easy task. As skeptical as I was about using technology, I think it is a good way to store notes. This way the notes will never get lost like notebooks and paper could. It is easily accessible and future projects may require the information I learned over the semester that is kept in my PKB.
My favorite new skill I learned this semester was how to clip articles and web pages and save them on Evernote. This is much more convenient than Bookmarking a website to a computer since the Evernote Web Clipper allows you to clip only the information you want to be saved; you can highlight a specific portion or clip the whole website. When referring back to it on Evernote, the web link is saved too for easy access back to the original website. This is especially useful when doing research online.
I was pleasantly surprised with the PKB. It was an efficient way for me to keep track of my notes. This class had several projects that required research; saving the information researched on the internet was easy via the Evernote Web Clipper. I will continue to use Evernote in the future to store and organize my notes for other classes. Using tags will make it easy to connect ideas from all different classes which enhances my educational experience.